Word: kins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miserables. While forced into retirement by the displeasure of Napoleon, Victor Hugo wrote his great novel venting protest against the harsh penal system of the day. He meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly...
Otto Grow: "Ef I kin get uh chanst to duck when me boss ain't lookin', I'll be there. Ya can't tell me they're goin' to play baseball alla time...
...Decline of the Dinosaurs and Their Kin in Later Mesoxoic Time," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Room, Geology...
...with all her next of kin dead and her husband's empire shattered, she sat last week with clear eyes incapable at last of further tears, as the hymns and songs that had meant life and glory welled again. The Cossacks, Tsarist officers and emigres wore the uniform of her own onetime Imperial Life Guards. "Matoushka Tsaritza!" burst out the Cossack leader, Boris Grabowski, at last. "Dear Little Mother-Empress! God and Holy Russia bless you! Oh, never shall we forget this...
...Yessir, and the laigs on his right side are longer than the ones on his left side, so he kin stand straight as he goes around the hill feedin'. He kin only go 'round that one way, o' course, an' when he gets ready to go to bed he has to lie down an' crawl into his hole...